Background: Autoantibodies against liver membrane are the specific autoantibodies found in AIH. Cytochrome P450 1A2 has been identified as the
target autoantigen for these autoantibodies
The aim of the study : is to evaluate the prevalence and clinical relevance of LMA in AIH
Methods: The study was performed on 73 Iraqi patients with chronic active hepatitis (CAH) of unknown cause , attending the teaching hospital for gastroenterology and
liver disease in a period between November 2003 and July 2004. Anti-liver membrane antibodies were studied by IFA technique.
Results: LMA was detected in the sera of 28(57.14)and 3(37.5%) patients with type 1 and type 3 AIH respectively, but never in the sera of h

Background: The healing of a sutured tendon in the hand usually occur with an unwanted amount of scarring that defeat good results. Many variables has been studied over many decades; timing of repair M’as a matter of debate. Zone II is the area where those variables mostly affect the results of treatment.
Objective: To study and evaluate the results of early or delayed repair under the effects of our local variables.
Method: Prospective study of 85 patients, which had flexor tendon repair at zone II by primary repair, delayed primary repair and tendon graft.
Results: Results showed a primary repair ended with better functional results than those with delayed repair and than those with tendon graft. Excellent & good results

Background: Neonatal screening for congenital hypothyroidism (CH) is an essential preventive public health program for early identification of disorders that can lead to potentially catastrophic health problems

Objectives: This is a pilot study conducted to determine the incidence of CH among infants born in two major maternity hospitals in Baghdad City and to build a model for nationwide screening program.

Methods: A prospective study on screening of all newborns was conducted in two major maternity hospitals in Baghdad, from 01.12.2001 - 31.12.2002. A total of 6949 neonates were screened for CH, cord blood samples were examined for serum TSH levels by immunoflourecent method (ELIZA) and reexamined for T4 using a cutoff&

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Background: CM is the leading cause of infant deaths and account for much greater proportion of infant mortality’ than does premature birth. A malformation is a primary structural defect arising from a localized error in morphogenesis. This is a prospective study devoted to define the causes and frequencies of congenital malformations (CM) in Maternal and Children Hospital (MCH) in Al-Anbar govemorate (west of Iraq) and a comparison is done with other Iraqi and international studies.
FdC Med Baghdad Methods: Congenital malformations were studied over a period of 2 years from the 1st of July 2000 2007/ Vol. 49, No.3 f0 fjle 30th ofJune 2002 in 12831 births including stillbirths at MCH in Al- Anbar govemorate (west Receive

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There is a need to find methods to assess the size of the extracellular fluid (ECF) volume without involving radioactive tracers. For this purpose, the simple delusion method was used
to measure the ECF in rabbits and the inulin which is a polysaccharide was used as a marker of ECF measurement.
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18 male rabbits were used in this study. 8 of these animals were bilaterally nephroctomized to calculate the exact time to get diffusion equilibrium time after a bolus dose of inulin at a
dose of 25mg/kg of a solution of inulin 10 mg/ml. intravenously. The blood samples were taken after 1, 15, 45, 60, 90, 120, and 180 min.
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ECF volume was about 144.5 to 149.7 ml/kg depending on the i

Background: Growth hormone is a hormone responsible for the normal body growth and development by stimulation protein production in muscle cells and
energy release for breakdown of fat. On the other hand leptin is a newly discovered hormone that is mainly synthesized in adipose tissues it decreases food intake by
causing satiety and promoting energy combustion . Both aging and obesity are associated with a reduction in growth hormone secretion. In the mean time obese
humans have increased circulating leptin.
Objective: The aim of this paper is to shed light on the contribution of these two hormones in the mechanism of aging process in an attempt of improving this
process for a better life at old ages.&n

Background : Obesity and insulin resistance have been quite well recognized as fundamental and leading causes of major health issues such as diabetes, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases. Abdominal obesity, particularly visceral adiposity is considered to play a major role in causing insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes mellitus , T2DM
The resistin is considered one of the causes of insulin resistance which lead to hyperinsulinemia and a decrease in the quantitative insulin sensitivity check index (Quicki)
which has been recently reported to be a useful marker of insulin resistance in patients with T2DM.
Objective : The aim of the present study is to find the relationship between

Background: Ulcerative colitis is a chronic idiopathic inflammatory disorder that affects the rectum & extends proximally to affect variable extent of the colon. Autoimmune hemolytic
anemia had reported in few cases.
Objective: to determine the prevalence of autoimmune hemolytic anemia in Ulcerative colitis.
Patient & Methods: Fifty Iraqi patients having Ulcerative colitis attending the GIT Center in Baghdad during the period from March to August 2004 were interviewed, examined and
diagnosed according to pathological study done for colonic biopsies by the same centre. Blood was drown for the assessment of complete picture with blood film, reticulocyte
percent, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, Coo

Vascular injury is still common in countries such as Iraq where both military and urban violence are endemic.
This is a report of a thirty eight year old civilian patient who had been inflicted with shrapnel injury during the 3rd. Gulf war, which had caused two different types of vascular injury with minimal evidence of vascular injury with evidence of only two small wounds in the neck and upper chest at the time of injury but presented few months later with a pulsatile neck mass and palpable thrill across the right supraclavicular area and upper chest.
Preoperative investigations were done including Doppler study and angiography which confirmed the presence of right common carotid artery aneurysm and

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Back ground: Inadequate secretory transformation of the endometrium resulting from deficient ovarian progesterone secretion is a cause of infertility and recurrent abortion
in luteal phase defects (LPD) women. LPD are diagnosed in 20% of infertile patients and 60% of patients with recurrent abortion and 50% of anovulatory women.
Aim : The objective of the present study was to compare pregnancy outcome following sperm penetration assay (SPA), intrauterine insemination (IUI) and luteal support
therapy (LST) in infertile patients with unexplained infertility (UI) mild and marked LPD.
Materials and Methods: Men with normal semen analyses and positive sperm penetration assay scores were included in this St

Back ground : Coronary artery diseases are not uncommon in the presence of right bundle branch block.
Aim : The aim of this study is to assess the findings of coronary angiography in patients with chest pain and right bundle branch block.
Methods : The study involved review of case sheets and coronary angiography of one hundred patients, who underwent coronary angiography due to chest pain suspected to have
coronary artery diseases (CAD) , fifty patients of them had right bundle branch block (RBBB) , the other fifty did not have RBBB , those 100 patients were presented to Ibin Al Bitar hospital
for cardiac surgery from January 2004 to June 2006. History, clinical examinations, electrocardiogram (ECG)

الخلفية : متلازمة الأيض هي مجموعة من عوامل الخطورة المسببة للأصابة بتصلب الشرايين وأمراض القلب التي تسببها السمنة ومنها  زيادة مستوى السكر بالدم و أرتفاع ضغط الدم وأختلال الشحمانية  ومقاومة الأنسولين.

الأديبونكتين هو هرمون بروتيني ينظم عدد من المسارات الأيضية من ضمنها تنظيم الكلوكوز  وتقويض الأحماض الدهنية . يفرز هرمون الاديبونكتين بصورة حصرية من الخلايا الش

الخلفية البحث:هرمون الانهبين ب هو احد مؤشرات قياس احتياطي المبيض والذي من المهم تقييمه لمعرفة مؤشرات القدرة التكاثرية لدى مرضى تكيس المبايض و الذي يعتبر من اكثر الاسباب شيوعا للعقم .

المرضى و طريقة العمل: اربعة و تسعون امرأة مصابة بتكيس المبايض تراجع في عيادة العقم التابعة لمستشفى بغداد التعليمي خلال الفترة من شهر تشرين الاول عام2005 لغاية شهر كانون الا

الخلفيه :الهيليوم نيون ليزر له تاثير في حماية الخلايا من الضررحيث تم دراسة الخلايا اللمفاويه المعرضه للاشعهالفوق البنفسجيه التي تحدث ضرر بالحامض النووي تحقق ذلك من خلال استخدام الترحيل الكهربائي وفحص حيوية الخلايا. ويعتمد هذا التاثير على فترة الحضن بعد الضررالحاصل . وانمدى ضرر الخلايا يعتمد على شدة الاشعاع وفترة التعرض .

الاهداف:تم دراسة تاثير الاشعه فوق ال

التقديم :  تشكل الإباضة الحدث المركزي في علم وظائف الأعضاء  للمبيض ،وضعف الاباضة  هو سبب العقم عند النساء ذات الصلة, وفرضية أن الإباضة في الثدييات هي مماثلة للتفاعلات الالتهابية منذ ان وصفت  العديد  من الجزيئات المسؤولة عن التسبب في التهاب بما في ذلك سلسلة PGS، leukotrienes والسيتوكينات المختلفة في المبيض.

الأهداف: تم تصميم هذه الدراسة للمقارنة بين الآثا

خلفية : تسمم الدم هو حالة شائعة في الأطفال الذين يعانون أعتلال ناتجة معدلات وفيات عالية. وتعريفا على أنها وجود البكتريا في الدم وغالبا" ما يرتبط التهاب حاد ، وأسماء بديلة (تسمم الدم ، جرثم الدم ، الأنتئان، متلازمة الأستجابة الألتهابية الجهازية).

الهدف: دراسة العوامل المسببة ،حساسية المضادات الحيوية  وتحديد الجنس من تسمم الدم عند الأطفال الداخلين في مستشفى ا